NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The ip6addrctl utility manages the policy table of source and destination
address selection for outgoing IPv4 and IPv6 packets. When ip6addrctl is
invoked without an argument or with a single argument show, it prints the
content of the policy table currently installed in the kernel.
To modify the table, the following operations are available:
addprefixprecedencelabel
Add a policy entry. The prefix argument is an IPv6 prefix, which
is a key for the entry. An IPv4 prefix should be specified with
an IPv6 prefix using an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address. The precedence
and label arguments are decimal numbers, which specify the
precedence and label values for the entry, respectively. This
operation should be performed without an existing entry for the
prefix.
deleteprefix
Delete a policy entry specified by prefix, which should be an
IPv6 prefix. A corresponding entry for the prefix should have
already been installed.
flush Delete all existing policy entries in the kernel.
installconfigfile
Install policy entries from a configuration file named
configfile. The configuration file should contain a set of
policy entries. Each entry is specified in a single line which
contains an IPv6 prefix, a decimal precedence value, and a
decimal label value, separated with white space or tab
characters. In the configuration file, lines beginning with the
pound-sign (`#') are comments and are ignored.

EXIT STATUS

The ip6addrctl utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

Richard Draves, DefaultAddressSelectionforIPv6, RFC 3484.

HISTORY

The ip6addrctl utility first appeared in the KAME IPv6 protocol stack
kit. The original command name was addrselect, but it was then renamed
to the current one so that the name would describe its function well.
DragonFly 5.3 November 6, 2018 DragonFly 5.3